Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Hammershoi is not one of those who need to be talked about quickly. His work is long and slow, and whensoever one studies it, that moment will always be an occasion for speaking about the important and essential in art.
— Rainer Maria Rilke via @richardmcguirehere
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
"What Jim wants to do is matter," Frey says. "He wanted a life that meant something."
— Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Monday, June 17, 2024
How did alphabet books deal with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones? We've picked out some of the best examples.
— @publicdomainrev
Sunday, June 16, 2024
What a day for a daydreamin' boy.
— The Lovin' Spoonful, "Daydream"
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Imagine being a cow and urinary incontinence wouldn't matter. Those lucky lucky girls.
— Lily looking at cows
Friday, June 14, 2024
They're not going to get hit by lightning and if they do they're insured. I think seals are cheap.
— Lily on seals potentially getting hit by lighting at the Central Park Zoo
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Me?
— Aardman Animations, Wat's Pig
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
In almost every picture' no. 9, about a family struggling to photograph their black dog
— @erik.kessels
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
And I'm so tired
I'm oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, so tired
But I'm trying to keep my customer satisfied,
Satisfied
— Simon & Garfunkel, "Keep the Customer Satisfied"
Monday, June 10, 2024
By the end of the decade of the '70s, the formal questions which had propelled my work for years stopped arising. As you might imagine, George, this was scary.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Sunday, June 9, 2024
And see that below one disassembling world lies the ruins of another disassembled world.
— James Hutton, Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night
Saturday, June 8, 2024
You know that there are
You know that there are
— Yusuf / Cat Stevens, "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out"
Friday, June 7, 2024
Two considerations dissuaded him: the realization that the task was interminable, and the realization that it was pointless. He saw that by the time he died he would still not have finished classifying all the memories of his childhood.
— Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes, His Memory"
Thursday, June 6, 2024
And yet he aspired to this level of transparency. He says that we should imagine someone asking “What’s going on right now in your mind?” without warning and that we should be able to answer truthfully without feeling the need to blush.
— Donald Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom
— Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti"
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
“The Best Circular Bike Ever Made” 2003...
I built this circular bike as an undergrad at UCSB. Twenty years later, as an Artist in Residence at Olin College of Engineering I brought it out for Olin’s Fall Gathering celebration so a new generation could ride.
The title emerged from a conversation I had with my college professor about my disappointment in learning that a circular bike was not a wholly original idea. I came to it honestly, but my professor was able to point to a few artists who had created similar things in the past. In fact, I learned that as early as the 1900’s people were making ‘velocipede carousels.’
Making this circular bike taught me a lot. I learned to weld, and how to fix bikes and most importantly I learned it’s not so important to be 100% original, in fact it’s impossible. We walk the same paths, we explore the same themes, we make the same mistakes and we relive the same histories. This is not the first circular bike, and it won’t be the last, and there is no best, just variations on an idea.
— @wechslerart
Monday, June 3, 2024
CHILDREN: Do not sign until age 18 or your first job, whichever is earlier.
— Social Security card stub
Sunday, June 2, 2024
The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Saturday, June 1, 2024
And that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years, or two hundred, or an infinite time.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Friday, May 31, 2024
For photographers who want to show what they're seeing or make pictures about the experience of how they are seeing, phones are perhaps the perfect medium.
— George Miles via Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
